How to pronounce writes in British English
“writes” pronunciation by British speakers
Listen to writes the way British speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “writes” in: all accents · American English (545 clips)
“writes” in real sentences — British speakers
344 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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But Alice writes to Alfred.
UK Parliament
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The funding council writes them.
The Scottish Parliament
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Sport writes to Sue Webber with the detail of that.
The Scottish Parliament
Words that sound like “writes”
Words one sound away from writes — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “writes”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of writes. Conversation gives you the stress, the vowel reduction and the speed that people actually use — and they differ between accents. YouTongue plays the surrounding sentence, so you hear the word in the rhythm it belongs to.